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Dying to be English

Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814

Kelly McGuire author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Feb '12

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This study examines the presentation of suicide within the genre of the eighteenth-century novel. Referencing several key writers of the period, McGuire demonstrates that their work inscribes a nationalist imperative to frame suicide as self-sacrifice.

'McGuire's arguments are carefully crafted, nuanced, and often strikingly original in their assessment of how suicide works in a range of disparate and often unwieldy novels. Dying to be English proves the reward of bringing multiple disciplinary lenses to bear upon the phenomenon of suicide and its broad cultural resonance.' Eighteenth-Century Fiction

ISBN: 9781848931107

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 589g

302 pages